Meanings
comparative more Mephistophelian · superlative most Mephistophelian
- alternativeAlternative form of Mephistophelean.
And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.
1989, Howard Aiken, “Early Inventors”, in Robert Slater, editor, Portraits in Silicon, The MIT Press, →ISBN1 more example
But, sitting by the opening of Ismail's Muslim Eating Shop, Inder Singh was spooning in soup, tall, thin, saturnine, his beard cut, contrary to the laws of religion, trimmed in a Mephistophelian manner, his turban neat and starched[.]
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 288
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveshowing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Mephistophelian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mephistophelian
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